Phishing Threats: Protection Against Phishing and Pharming- WhitePaper

Friday, October 28, 2011

Protection Against Phishing and Pharming- WhitePaper

Here is a white paper on 'protection against phishing and pharming' (2009) published by EasySolutions.
http://www.apwg.org/sponsors_technical_papers/easysol_wp_phishing_pharming.pdf

This is targeted at the end-user (the weakest link) to create better awareness of the modus operandi of the attacks. The scenarios described pertain to 2008.

The DetectSafe Browsing solution is proposed for secure browsing.

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Phishing Threats

Computer users receive emails from their bankers or employers, or from utility companies or other institutions or organizations they deal with or even from friends on facebook or twitter, asking for updating their personal information by clicking on links provided in the mail. They take it for granted that these are genuine mails and in good faith click on the links. The phishers who are organized criminals redirect the users to malicious websites and harvest their personal information. The users ultimately become victims to identity theft, financial frauds and even more serious crimes leading to blackmail, murder, and so on.

Phishing attacks engineered by criminals through the medium of phishing emails ultimately lead to loss of consumer confidence in online transactions that include financial transactions and social interactions through Facebook and other social networking sites.

This is an attempt to survey the phishing threat landscape, to identify the criminal groups and their modus operandi and to understand the impact of phishing on online users.